On the first day of the recent MMX 2026, the annual Members Meeting and Exchange held by America Makes in Youngstown, Ohio, someone asked me if I had any early thoughts as to the initial theme of the event. Having already listened to several presentations, I half-jokingly answered, “‘I hate Bambu,’ ‘I love Bambu,’ and ‘everything is expensive.'”...
Robotics is widely seen as key to both economic competitiveness and U.S. geopolitical security. The Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing, or ARM, Institute yesterday issued a project call seeking technologies to address defense needs in metalwork, drones, munitions, shipbuilding, and more.
Project Call 27-01 requests submissions for projects that...
America Makes, the National Additive Manufacturing Innovation Institute, has announced newly elected members of its Executive Committee.
The Executive Committee, comprised of the 'brightest minds from industry, academia, government, workforce and economic development organisations,' ensures that the appropriate strategy, policy, and advocacy are...
Stratasys has been awarded a $7.8m contract to advance the development of on-site quality assurance capabilities for its F3300 and F900 FDM additive manufacturing systems.
The 2026 America Makes and the Department of War (DoW) Organic Industrial Base (OIB) Modernization Challenge has provided the funding, with work to commence over the next two...
America Makes and the National Center for Defense Manufacturing and Machining (NCDMM) announced the winners of the 2026 Department of War (DoW) Organic Industrial Base (OIB) Modernization Challenge, with awards up to $15M. The challenge is funded by the Office of the Under Secretary of War, Manufacturing Technology Office (OSW ManTech).
Released...
America Makes and the National Center for Defense Manufacturing and Machining (NCDMM) have selected the winning teams for Delta Qual 2.0, a $9 million project call aimed at cutting the qualification barriers that slow additive manufacturing adoption across the U.S. defense industrial base. Three teams, led by ATI Materials, Trusted Metal, Auburn...
The US Army’s DEVCOM Armaments Center , headquartered at Picatinny Arsenal in New Jersey, has become one of the US military’s most important hubs for drone R&D. At the recent Valiant Shield exercise in the Indo-Pacific, a team from the Armaments Center showed off how forward-thinking it is in its drone manufacturing approach by incorporating...
Nine new innovation “ambassadors” were congratulated into the ranks of America Makes this week.
The Youngstown-based institute has announced the recipients of its 2026 Ambassador Awards and Distinguished Collaborator Award.
A national additive manufacturing institute, America Makes trains young engineers and conducts research into additive...
The Metallurgical Engineering Trades Apprenticeship & Learning (METAL) program, led by IACMI – The Composites Institute®, announced four new partnerships to enhance and scale up industry-driven training opportunities for current and prospective metalworking and manufacturing professionals: the University of Wisconsin-Madison College of...
America Makes and the National Center for Defense Manufacturing and Machining (NCDMM) have selected 25 project teams for a $10.5 million program intended to expand the US defense industrial base for metal additive manufacturing.
The Joint Additive Qualification for Sustainment – Supplier Qualification Groups 2 and 3 project, or JAQS-SQ, will...
A new architecture for American industrial policy is taking shape, and it is being built from the ground up. The old model treated research and development (R&D) as a national objective to be managed from Washington. Over the last 15 years, U.S. innovation policy has increasingly recognized innovation as inherently regional, rooted in the...
Maple Grove is getting a very 21st-century kind of factory: one where microbes, corn sugar, and fermentation could help produce plastics, chemicals, aviation materials, and even cement. The ambitious project is designed to tackle a stubborn problem in American manufacturing — plenty of promising biotechnology gets developed in U.S. labs, but not...
America Makes and the National Center for Defense Manufacturing and Machining support 25 project teams with a total of $10.5 million. The JAQS-SQ program aims to establish uniform requirements for suppliers who want to manufacture metal parts via laser Powder Bed Fusion (LPBF) or Directed Energy Deposition (DED) for the US defense sector.
The REMADE Institute, a 150-member public-private partnership established in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) with an initial investment of $140 million, today announced $4.86 million in new technology research, selecting 10 new research demonstration, verification and validation (DV&V) projects as part of the Institute’s...
A new national survey from BioMADE suggests strong, bipartisan backing for growing America’s bioindustrial manufacturing sector, with most respondents saying they want more domestically produced bio-based goods in the supply chain—and expect the federal government to help make it happen.
The findings, released alongside a YouGov-conducted poll of 2...
